meanwhile, congressman ryan is in ohio all weekend. a 400-mile bus tour and he will continue that trip throughout the state tomorrow and campaign with mitt romney in marian and then coming up of course in just a bit here, about 11:30 a.m., about now, we will be taking you to zanesville high school nancy reagahigh school inohio. a look at the battleground statements. we've been doing a watch journal, this one, a short focus on wisconsin. as we focus on the state of wisconsin, and joining us also from milwaukee, is craig gilbert, he's with the "milwaukee journal," mr. gilbert, thanks for joining us. >> nice to be with you. >> a couple of facts according to what we've gathered when it comes to the states, when itfact comes to wisconsin specifically, we're looking at 10 electoral votes. currently, we're looking at an unemployment rate of 7.3% and in 2008, the president won reelection. 13.9 percentage points. mr. gilbert, can we start with the economics of wisconsin, specifically with the unemployment rate. can you give us and elabor rate o